U.S. Tried To Spark Uprising In Cuba Through Hip-Hop

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December 12, 2014 12:00 pm - NewsBehavingBadly.com

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The United States secretly infiltrated Cuba’s underground hip-hop movement in an attempt to recruit rappers to help spark a youth movement against the Cuban government. The claim comes from a newly released report by the Associated Press, which obtained documents that show that the U.S. Agency for International Development used unwitting Cuban musicians in an attempt…

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D.B. Hirsch
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

14 responses to U.S. Tried To Spark Uprising In Cuba Through Hip-Hop

  1. Aun Awn December 12th, 2014 at 12:09 pm

    Good? Cuba would be better off without communism and the world would be better off without communist nations.

    • fahvel December 12th, 2014 at 1:06 pm

      and you base your brilliant comment on what? Cuba is a very nice pace despite the evil imposed upon it by the usa – doctors, literacy etc far exceed that of the usa.

      • tracey marie December 12th, 2014 at 4:43 pm

        it’s a troll, here to start trouble and get it’s nickels. This one is not clever enough to even bother with

    • rg9rts December 13th, 2014 at 12:09 pm

      Hardly broke in the ID

  2. EnuffBull December 12th, 2014 at 1:08 pm

    Haven’t Cubans suffered enough?

    • rg9rts December 13th, 2014 at 12:08 pm

      It drives the baggers that they seem to do quite well without us.

  3. tiredoftea December 12th, 2014 at 1:19 pm

    So, we start with infiltrating street movements and end up with torture. Gotts to love our way to encourage democracy.

  4. tracey marie December 12th, 2014 at 4:44 pm

    Just drop the old fashioned and ridiculous embargo, if we can do business and travel to China we can do business/travel with Cuba.

    • ExPFCWintergreen December 12th, 2014 at 6:54 pm

      It’s actually a kind of clever idea, using music to delegitimize a regime. We tried it in the 50s with jazz, for example, and in the case of at least some Communist countries it seemed to have an effect; you know, the idea of improvisational music as being somehow impossible to create in a totalized state had the effect of decoupling a lot of intellectuals from their regimes (it’s why Goebbels created his own Nazi swing band in an effort to out-boggie Glenn Miller). The real problem here is the target. Cubans already have a rich and vibrant musical culture, one we’ve been plumbing for inspiration for decades. But you’re right: the only thing that has kept the Castros in power is the embargo — for which I’m sure Fidel has been eternally grateful.

      • tracey marie December 12th, 2014 at 8:46 pm

        china…I rest my case

        • ExPFCWintergreen December 12th, 2014 at 11:46 pm

          China’s tricky, though. The regime is being very clever, like Vietnam’s. Whether it’s sustainable or not over the long run is unclear, but so far there’s not a lot of indications that this semi-capitalist experiment in a few provinces is fundamentally undermining the regime, Hong Kong notwithstanding.

          • rg9rts December 13th, 2014 at 12:08 pm

            You’ll know when they have the number 1 hit on billboard

      • rg9rts December 13th, 2014 at 12:05 pm

        SEX DRUGS AND ROCK&ROLL the downfall of our wonderful american culture

  5. rg9rts December 13th, 2014 at 12:03 pm

    Brought to you by the same idiots that use torture for information gathering…an also useless endeavor..

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